Melting sea ice is forcing seabirds to fly further to forage, a new study has shown. Albatrosses and petrels which breed on ...

Scientists found four previously unknown emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica, a discovery that increases the known population of the iconic species but also uncovers the impact of melting ice.

typically in December ahead of the summer melt. But if the ice melts too early, the chicks risk drowning and freezing.

land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice. Loss of Antarctic ice endangers the survival of emperor penguin chicks, study says Emperor penguins hatch their eggs and raise ...

Barbara Wienecke, a seabird researcher at the Australian Antarctic Division, explained that emperor penguins have ...

A Toronto photographer is highlighting the effects of climate change in Antarctica as part of a new photo exhibition.Neil ...

The penguins, which need sea ice connected to land to breed and raise their chicks, were suffering a breeding failure because that same ice was melting due to climate change. In 2022, Antarctic ...

Around 10,000 penguin chicks who had not yet developed waterproof feathers died after an ice bed beneath them melted and broke apart, the BBC reported on Thursday. The emperor penguin chicks most ...

As sea ice disappears or breaks up earlier in the year, entire emperor penguin colonies are declining or vanishing in parts of Antarctica. Melting sea ice, ocean acidification and industrial fisheries ...

He says one possible scenario is that they died naturally on the sea ice. "But it could also be the case that these penguins have fallen into melt ponds," he said. "We're making hypotheses and we ...